* John Brahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070109 15:22]: > On 1/9/07, John Brahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How would I translate this into /etc/hostname.trunk0? > > > >ifconfig em0 up > >ifconfig em1 up > >ifconfig trunk0 trunkport em0 trunkport em1 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask > >255.255.255.0 > > > >should it just be > >!/sbin/ifconfig em0 up > >!/sbin/ifconfig em1 up > >!/sbin/ifconfig trunk0 trunkport em0 trunkport em1 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask > >255.255.255.0 > > > >or is there a more syntactically correct way to to it? > > > > ok, I figured it out: > $ cat /etc/hostname.trunk0 > trunkproto loadbalance trunkport em0 trunkport em1 xx.xx.xx.xx 255.255.255.0 > > and it works perfectly! OpenBSD rocks! > > is this the way that it always is for configuring /etc/hostname.if > files? basically take the ifconfig command and put everything after > the interface name into the /etc/hostname.if file? >
Read /etc/netstart. In your case, the main script invokes ifmstart which in turn calls ifstart. The shell script builds a command string that is subsequently eval'd. Also: man 5 hostname.if Short answer to your question: no, it depends. :) Jim
